BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF EDGAR A. POE.

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EXPLANATORY. — Titles of the editions of collected poems are printed in ITALIC CAPITALS; titles of the
editions of collected tales, in ROMAN CAPITALS; single poems, in SMALL CAPITALS; single tales, in italics; books reviewed by Poe are
“quoted”; essays, miscellanies, and editorials are not quoted; newspapers and magazines are printed in italics; B. J.
means Broadway Journal, vols. i. and ii.; S. L. M. indicates Southern Literary Messenger; 1827, 1829, 1831, 1833, 1840,
1843, 1845, are dates of the editions of collected poems and tales.

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1827

TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS. By A BOSTONIAN. Boston: Calvin F. S. Thomas. 1827. 40 pp. 12mo. Reprinted in London, by George Redway,
1884, with a Preface by R. H. Shepherd.

POEMS. By EDGAR A. POE. Second Edition. New York: Published by Elam Bliss. 1831 Though the second edition of AL AARAAF, most of
the poems are here published for the first time. 124 pp. 12mo. [page 356:]

[Poe adds a note here: “Mr. Poe’s attention being called in another direction, he will decline, with the
present [page 362:] number, the editorial duties of the Messenger. His
Critical Notices for this month end with Professor Anthon’s ‘Orations’ — what follows is from another hand. With
the best wishes to the Magazine, and to its few foes as well as many friends, he is now desirous of bidding all parties a peaceable
farewell.“]

LENORE, The Pioneer, Graham’s Magazine, February; Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4.
Appeared in the edition of 1831, and in the Southern Literary Messenger, January, 1836, under the title A PAEAN, B. J., ii. 6.

The Rationale of Verse (essay), The Pioneer, March 1843, as “Notes on English Verse,” in its first
draft: Southern Literary Messenger, October, November, 1848, elaborated.

ROMANCE, Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4, 1845; B. J. ii. 8.

AL AARAAF, Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4.

THE SLEEPER, Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4. Appeared in the edition of 1831, and in the Southern
Literary Messenger, May 1836, under the title of IRENE.

The Gold-Bug (tale), Prize Story of The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, June 21-28, 1843; 1845.

THE PROSE ROMANCES OF EDGAR A. POE, No. 1 [all published]. The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man that was Used Up.
Philadelphia. 1843. 8vo.

Contributions to the New Mirror published by Willis and Morris, New York. Attributed to Poe as follows:

Souvenirs of Youth (headed “Original Translation from the French,” signed E. P.), May 13. [[This item is
attributed to Poe based on the Whitman copy.]]

The Master Spirits of their Age. Translated from the French [[for the New Mirror]] (signed E. P.), June 3.
[[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Anecdotes of Suwarrow. Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed. E. P.), June 3.

The Head of St. John the Baptist (Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), June 17.[[This
item is attributed to Poe based on the Whitman copy.]]

The Literary Pirate Foiled. An Incident in the Life of [page 369:] Anne Radcliffe. Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), June 24. [[This item
is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

A Morning’s Walk in the Luxembourg. Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), July 1.
[[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Merchant’s Daughter. Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), July; 5. [[This
item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The above continued under the same title (signed E. P.), July 22. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily
Percival.]]

The above continued, with the beading“’ The Merchant’s Daughter.” A Novel from the French of
M. Scribe. Translated by A Lady for the New Mirror (no initial signed), July 29.

The above continued, under the same heading as in July 29 (signed E. P.), Aug. 5. [[This item is actually attributed
to Emily Percival.]]

The same story and title (signed E. P.), Aug. 22. The same (signed E. P.), Aug. 29. [[This item is actually attributed
to Emily Percival.]]

The same under the following heading: (Communicated) The Merchant’s Daughter. A Novel from the French of M.
Scribe (concluded) (signed E. P.), Sept. 9. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Ennui. From the French of Eugene Guinot. Translated for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), Sept. 23. [[This item is
actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Yellow Rose. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Bernard. A novel in Four Parts. Part I., Oct.
7. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Two Marines in India- From the French of A. Ligniers [[for the New Mirror]] (signed E. P.), Nov. 4. [[This
item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Women are Sometimes Fickle. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of De Maynard (signed E. P.), Nov.
21. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Man Without a Name. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of S. H. Berthoud (signed E. P.), Nov.
25. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Two Empresses. Translated for the New Mirror from the Gazette de Lausanne (signed E. P.), Dec. 2. [[This
item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Expectation. Translated from the French of Souvestre [[for the New Mirror]] (signed E. P.), Dec. 2. [[This item
is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Story of a Cup of Tea. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of J. Lecompte (signed E. P.), Dec.
16. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]] [page 370:]

The Poet’s Laura. Translated from the French for the New Mirror (signed E. P.), Dec. 23. [[This item is
actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Three Visits to the Hotel des Invalides, 1705-1806-1840. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Emile
Marco de Saint Hilaire (signed E. P.), Dec. 30. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Three Visits to the Hotel des In valides (signed E. P.), Jan. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Eugene Scribe. The Price of Life (signed E. P.), Jan. 13. [[This item
is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Louis Lurine. The jailer (signed E. P.), Jan. 20. [[This item is
actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Laseaux. The Bracelet (signed E. P.), Feb. 3. [[This item is actually
attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Pearl of Geneva. Translated from the French of De Mirecourt (signed E. K., a typographical error for P.), Feb. 17.
[[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Misfortune of having a Dowry. Translated from the French of Paul Merruau (signed E. P.), Feb. 24. Parisian Chronicle.
[[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Translated for the New Mirror from the Courrier des 91ats Unis (signed E. P.), March 2. [[This item is actually
attributed to Emily Percival.]]

The Oath that Was Kept. Translated for the New Mirror from the French of Mark Perrin not signed), March 9. The
same (concluded) (signed E. P.), March 16. [[This item is actually attributed to Emily Percival.]]

Reviews, essays, etc., in the Broadway Journal, signed with Poe’s initial (P.) in his own copy, now in the possession of F. R.
Halsey, Esq., or otherwise indicated as Poe’s. TheTales and Poems which had appeared previously in other forms, or in other
journals, are not repeated here.

ELDORADO, Griswold. No earlier publication known. [[Actually, the poem appeared first in the Flag of our
Union.]]

THE WORKS OF THE LATE EDGAR ALLAN POE. With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Notices of His Life and Genius by
N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, in four volumes. Redfield, 34 Beekman [page 378:]
Street. 1850-1856. (Preface by Mrs. Maria Clemm.) (Copyrighted, 1849.) The same in three volumes, 1850; in four volumes, 1853.

THE LITERATI: Some Honest Opinions about Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Words of Personality, together
with Marginal Suggestions, and Essays, With a Sketch of the Author, by R. W. Griswold. New York: J. S. Redfield. 1850, pp. xxxix, 607.
12mo. (Vol. III. of Griswold’s edition.)

1. These three poems are by A. M. Ide. See Correspondence, Vo. XVII. — ED. [[The poems by A. M. Ide should also include “To Isadore”]]

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Notes:

There are many problems with this bibliography. Among the most serious is the long list of items in the New Mirror signed by
“E. P.,” all but two of which are now attributed to Emily Percival. Following the error of J. H. Ingram, a number of
poems printed in the Broadway Journal, under the byline A. M. Ide, are mistakenly attributed to Poe. Instead, A. M. Ide was a
real person, and none of these poems are by Poe. Other problems include identifying, in at least one instance, the tales “How
to Write a Blackwood Article” and “The Power of Words” as essays. In general, this bibliography should be
considered unreliable, and of interest merely as an historical document.